Marlon Bascombe Coach of Lean.Strong.Fast Suspected of Cheating for BQ

Wow. This guy is something else. Definitely shouldn't be coaching other runners. Looks like Marlon or Mike Rossi are posting under various aliases defending his cheating and dodging answering the charges. Typical of cheats. Shoot the messenger. Deny accountability.

Another one of our finest runners. He should run the Via Marathon next time.

Call out Cheats wrote:

Given Marlon has a following and a coach, he should be held to an even higher standard than your everyday hobby jogger cheat. His case is far more severe than Gia Alvarez who was outed and ultimately apologized and took ownership of her actions.

A following and some product ambassadorships...

But beware! As someone posted there...well...let's just say his followers are a tad more......'passionate' about this for a reason I just can't seem to figure out...

On the bright side - his supporters aren't imaginary as opposed to you know who.

This thread will be removed I'm sure..probably best to leave his name out of the title at least.

Also in looking at that group...wow...there are 3 things wrong about that team name...

First page!

Who's surprised by this? Well I guess he does look jacked like Hall now (who'd thought we'd ever say that?) and he just jumped in and ran 5:40 pace with his wife for 3 mi). So maybe our new Rossi is just as good as Hall.

I hope his clients find out and drop his cheating ass. I suspect most won't ever know or care. He doesn't actually need to be fast to motivate others but cheating in his races destroys his credibility.

Q42 wrote:

He doesn't actually need to be fast to motivate others but cheating in his races destroys his credibility.

THIS! Sharp Endurance dude has a big following by just being a primping, posing, and smiling motivator with zero skill. This fella went about it ALL wrong.

Q42 wrote:

So maybe our new Rossi is just as good as Hall.

Key words there: New Rossi.

This doesn't mean Mike can squeal like a pig with delight. We'll never let off the pressure. But it is time to make it fair by not making it exclusively about him.

Winner Winner wrote:

Q42 wrote:

So maybe our new Rossi is just as good as Hall.

Key words there: New Rossi.

This doesn't mean Mike can squeal like a pig with delight. We'll never let off the pressure. But it is time to make it fair by not making it exclusively about him.

Until this guy cheats at a turkey trot and verbally attacks/insults women, children and disabled people, he's no Mike Rossi. At best he's just another marathon cheat right now. To be Mike Rossi, a person needs to sink way lower

Looks like his "team" is coming out to defend him. Everyone is using defenses (excuses) that are addressing everything but the facts presented.

Wow! Sounds like a winner I'd love to have in my race!!!

Barb McKeever wrote:

Wow! Sounds like a winner I'd love to have in my race!!!

Hi barb :)

Typical wrote:

Looks like his "team" is coming out to defend him. Everyone is using defenses (excuses) that are addressing everything but the facts presented.

I hope that you don't seriously believe that saying Mike Rossi is a bigger scum bag is coming to someone's "defense".

Reader of words wrote:

Typical wrote:

Looks like his "team" is coming out to defend him. Everyone is using defenses (excuses) that are addressing everything but the facts presented.

I hope that you don't seriously believe that saying Mike Rossi is a bigger scum bag is coming to someone's "defense".

I believe the "team" that is defending him being referred to are all found in the comments of :http://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2016/05/suspicious-boston-qualifying-result-for.html

Dummy. The better approach is to never race but claim amazing times and build a lucrative business from your lies. Maybe pretend you invented something called "hybrid athlete" training. Then call up and threaten the Brojos if Letsrun has a thread about it.

Cheating in an obvious way and then doubling down with a clearly fake run track is just dumb.

I feel bad for us as athletes when I read the defenders of these cheaters in the comments. If I walked out of a basketball gym and told people I'd just hit fifteen 3-pointers in a row and dunked on a guy in a competitive game, they would just laugh at me. But these guys who don't even pass the eye test can say that they ran a 22-mile split at 6:20 pace and their friends are like "you don't know how hard they work!!1!1".

Let's see if this guy learned something from Rossi. Admit now and rebuild your life.

Otherwise, you're a sad mad playing the chicken dance at a sweet 16 dance, living off your wife, taking selfies, making silly threats, coloring hair that isn't yours yelling at 12 basement dwellers.

I loved the guy who wrote that if we saw "his . . . technique" we would not doubt his times. Really, he does drills well, so he must be a somewhat above average marathoner?I cannot tell you the number of times I would show up to races when I was 5 or 10 pounds overweight, looking like the 20th best runner out there and thinking that I might be in trouble, then go out and beat all but a handful of them.Using the "just look at him - its obvious he can do this" defense in the face of the data that is available to the contrary in this day and age is just mind boggling.

Raysism wrote:

I feel bad for us as athletes when I read the defenders of these cheaters in the comments. If I walked out of a basketball gym and told people I'd just hit fifteen 3-pointers in a row and dunked on a guy in a competitive game, they would just laugh at me. But these guys who don't even pass the eye test can say that they ran a 22-mile split at 6:20 pace and their friends are like "you don't know how hard they work!!1!1".

No one else in the race missed all the mats from 10k to 40k. Marlon did, and made a big mistake. Now he should be a big man and admit it.

Drop the mic.